gillespie says "that, as a general rule, the horizontal length of a road may be advantageously increased to avoid an ascent by at least twenty times the perpendicular height which is thus to be avoided-that is, to escape a hill one hundred feet high it would be proper for the road to make such a circuit as would increase its length two thousand feet."
"The Future of Road-making in America"
Archer Butler Hulbert
Waldo gillespie let his feet slip from beneath him, sitting down with greater force than grace, back supported against a gnarled juniper, loosening the clothes at his neck while using his other hand to ply his crumpled hat as a fan.
"The Lost City"
Joseph E. Badger, Jr.
While that little lecture would make interesting reading for those who take an interest in such matters, it need scarcely be reproduced in this connection, more particularly as, just when the professor was getting fairly warmed up to his work, an interruption came in the shape of a sharp, eager shout from the lips of Waldo gillespie.
"The Lost City"
Joseph E. Badger, Jr.
